Jul 7, 2004 · More seriously, persistent 'new' hoarseness in a smoker can be a hallmark of cancer. Lung cancer can sometimes damage the left recurrent laryngeal nerve which passes close to the left lung. This nerve supplies the left vocal cord. If damaged the …

Feb 24, 2024 · There is no difference in the inflammatory response of a non-smoker or a smoker after they quit, indicating that the effect on innate immunity is transient and short-lived. However, there is a significant difference between the amount of genetic tags present in a non-smoker and a smoker long after they have quit.

Aug 18, 2007 · BC, made the point i was coming back to. No matter how much you protest to a smoker, or tell them how harmful the habit is, it will not stop them. They know the health risks and continue to smoke due to addiction or pleasue. The "advice" i gave above would only work if your parents wanted to give up.

Oct 11, 2009 · Some cigarette makers also increased the length of the paper wrapped around the outside of the cigarette filter and this decreases the number of puffs that occur during a machine test. Although the tobacco under the filter is still available to the smoker and this tobacco is not burned during the machine test.

Aug 22, 2016 · When I was younger I was definitely able to sound more a young boy, a ten or eleven year old boy's voice. That was definitely something I was matched for. And when I would play girls, I would often be cast to play a bully because I have kind of rough voice; I have a scratchy voice and I would often do New York accents.

Feb 2, 2016 · Here's Dr Nick Gibbens, a specialist in voice surgery.Nick - The way we hear is by sound waves, which are pressure waves going through the air, coming in through the ear canal, through the eardrum and the small bones of hearing, into the inner ear where it creates electrical signals that get sent to the brain, and the brain interprets that as ...

Aug 5, 2007 · We hear all the time about the 10s of thousands of chemicals in cigarettes, including things like formaldehyde, but why are they there?

Sep 11, 2006 · My mom was a smoker the majority of her life. She is 58, and I believe started smoking around the age of 15. She was in terrible shape. She couldn't walk across the room without having to use her nebulizer. She had asthma most of her life, emphysema, COPD and a host of other breathing problems.

Dec 28, 2013 · For those of you who sing in a choir (or in the shower), you know that the wider you open your mouth and the more teeth you show, the better tone you get. The same applies on the telephone. Smiling helps your voice to sound friendly, warm, and receptive.

Mar 30, 2008 · Dr David Howard, University of York, Voice Production, Department of Electronics: In answer to the question which relates to accents, what you hear when people sing as opposed to when they speak, I think the answer to this lies in the way people are trained to sing.